imageSource and "binfile:"

[Jim Hurley]

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>Message: 3
>Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 12:31:32 -0500
>From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
>Organization: HyperActive Software
>To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>Subject: Re: imageSource and "binfile:"
>Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
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>On 6/28/03 10:13 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:
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>>  Apparently there are some conditions in its application that I am
>>  missing. Every time I try:
>>
>>    answer file "Choose an image:"
>>    set the imagesource of char 1 of fld 1 to ("binfile:"&it)
>>
>>  my computer either locks up, forcing a restart, or RR itself quits. I
>>  have set the fixedLineHeight to false. What am I missing--what
>  > conditions must apply to the character and/or the image?
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>Hmm. Not sure. The image, of course, has to be in a format that RR can
>read (jpg and gif are most common). Maybe the image you are choosing is
>too large, in terms of bytes? I'm not aware of any size restrictions per
>se, but if you are trying to load a huge image it might monopolize
>memory somehow. Usually the images I load are very small, like little
>bullet pictures or small arrows. Most are only a few kilobytes or less.
>What happens if you choose a very small image?
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>In the test I did, I just created a new field in a new stack and put a
>few characters of text into it. I didn't change any of the field
>properties. Then I used the script above to set the first character's
>imagedata. Did you try it with a new field?
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>The fixedlineheight doesn't seem to matter. In my test, the field
>originally had fixedLineHeight set to true but the image got chopped off
>at the top. So I set it to false and the image became fully visible. So
>that part seems to work either way.
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>--
>Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com


Jacqueline,

Thanks for all the good advice. I did as you said, namely created a 
couple of small images, one a jpg and the other a gif. Both worked 
well with no problems--most of the time. But again, a couple of 
crashes.

I didn't pursue the problem. Chasing down a bug, when the bug is a 
crash, gets old in a hurry. Ask any pilot.

Jim